By MP Mexico News Staff Mexico Expo comes to California ORANGE COUNTY,CA — The Mexico, Tourism, Travel & Real Estate Expo, presented by the Mexico Tourism Board, AeroMexico Airlines, Luma Living, The Real Estate Book, Bancomer and Baja California Tourism, will take place at the Marriott Hotel in Irvine on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 from [...]

MEXLend Closes First Puerto Vallarta Scotiabank Dollar Loan Puerto Vallarta, Mexico — Leading Mexico mortgage broker MEXLend today announced the first dollar loan closing in Puerto Vallarta with banking partner Scotiabank. Already the principal mortgage broker for Mexico and the Puerto Vallarta area, MEXLend now offers additional lending programs for investors looking to purchase residential [...]

David Simmonds I have been conducting a very unscientific evaluation of whether or not the real estate price meltdown in the U.S. is affecting those in Mexico. My conclusion is that all of the people involved in real estate sales in Mexico say everything is still appreciating and booming…and everyone else vehemently disagrees. No surprise [...]

MP Mexico News Staff   Los Cabos, Mexico (May 5, 2008) – The Los Cabos Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced plans for the development of Quivira Los Cabos, a luxury residential resort community inclusive of The Ritz-Carlton Los Cabos, Quivira; The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton Los Cabos, Quivira; two Jack Nicklaus-designed signature golf courses [...]

MP Mexico News LORETO, The Future of the First Capital of the Californias by Paul Ganster, Oscar Arizpe and Antonia Ivanova. SDSU Press, available from Sunbelt Publications (www.sunbeltpub.com). Loreto was one of five regions to be targeted by Fonatur, the tourism development arm of the Mexican government, in the early 1970′s. Tho other areas of [...]

David Simmonds As Jimmy Buffett tells us in one of his best songs, everyone has their “One Particular Harbor”, the place that speaks to you like an old, dear friend; the person/place you trust and can always depend on to deliver. For me that “harbor” has always been Puerto Vallarta, where I first landed in [...]

David Simmonds The 3rd annual Mexico Resort Development Conference has just concluded in La Costa, near San Diego, with some new, but not surprising, revelations. For many years these type of affairs have been very upbeat cheerleading sessions designed to synergize the attendees into prolific deal-making. Many of the industry’s heavy-hitters were in attendance, including [...]